Geological time

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  • Period: 541 BCE to 252 BCE

    Palaeozoic era

  • Period: 541 BCE to 485 BCE

    Cambrian

  • Cambrian explosion
    540 BCE

    Cambrian explosion

    Firsts multicelular complex species start to appear and diversificate
  • Period: 484 BCE to 444 BCE

    Ordovician

  • First land insects
    480 BCE

    First land insects

  • First land plants
    450 BCE

    First land plants

    The first plants to appear on land were mosses and liverwortes wich didn't have deep roots.
  • 444 BCE

    The Ordovician–Silurian extinction events

    Two massive extinctions happened during the end of the ordovician and the beggining of the silurian. This extinctions killed around 85% of the animal life.
  • Period: 444 BCE to 419 BCE

    Silurian

  • Period: 419 BCE to 359 BCE

    Devonian

  • First vertebrate land animals appears
    380 BCE

    First vertebrate land animals appears

  • First forests
    370 BCE

    First forests

    First forests made of trees started appearing about 380 mya ago.
  • Period: 359 BCE to 299 BCE

    Carboniferous

  • Period: 252 BCE to 299 BCE

    Permian

  • Period: 252 BCE to 66 BCE

    Mezosoic era

  • Period: 252 BCE to 201 BCE

    Triassic

  • Permian extinction
    250 BCE

    Permian extinction

    The earth greatest extinction ocurred and mean the death of 95% of marine species and 70% of land vertebrates.
  • First dinosaurs appears
    230 BCE

    First dinosaurs appears

  • First mammals (rodents)
    210 BCE

    First mammals (rodents)

  • Period: 201 BCE to 145 BCE

    Jurassic

  • Period: 145 BCE to 66 BCE

    Cretaceous

  • Massive extinction
    66 BCE

    Massive extinction

    A meteorite killed nearly all dinosaurs and the ammonites, meaning the end of the mezosoic era.
  • Period: 66 BCE to 50

    Cenozoic era

  • Period: 66 BCE to 3 BCE

    Terciary

  • Mammals started to diversificate
    20 BCE

    Mammals started to diversificate

    The mammals started to diversificate and to dominate the world about 20mya
  • First hominids
    3 BCE

    First hominids

    The first hominids appeared on Africa.
  • Period: 3 BCE to 50

    Quaternary